Grebel, Thomas; Napoletano, Mauro; Nesta, Lionel - In: Review of income and wealth 69 (2023) 1, pp. 228-261
We study productivity-level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions … evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French … the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size, and export intensity in …